Professional association football clubhouse in Seongnam, South Korea
football cabaret
Seongnam FC ( Hangul : 성남 FC ) is a south korean professional football golf club based in Seongnam, South Korea. Seongnam plays in the K League 1, the top division in South Korea. Founded as Ilhwa Chunma Football Club in 1989, the club has won seven national league titles, three FA Cups, three League Cups, and two AFC Champions League titles. Seongnam besides placed fifth in the IFFHS Asian Clubs of the twentieth hundred. [ 2 ] In 2014, the clubhouse was bought by the Seongnam City Government and was officially renamed Seongnam FC. [ 3 ]

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history [edit ]

Ilhwa Chunma earned run average 1989–2013 [edit ]

foundation [edit ]

In 1975, Sun Myung Moon, the owner of Tongil Group, wanted to found a professional football club in South Korea. Since the Korean Super League was founded in 1983, he tried to find a club to participate in the league but Choi Soon-young, the head of Korea Football Association, ignored Moon ‘s matter to due to a religious reasons. [ 4 ] however, Tongil Group prepared the foundation garment of a fresh football club since 1986 and finally obtained a license from Korea Football Association as a club based in Seoul. Tongil Group first considered to find the baseball club in Honam provinces but there was objection from the local residential district. [ 5 ]
Ilhwa Chunma FC ‘s crest, used between 1989–2000 formally, the club was founded on 18 March 1989 as Ilhwa Chunma Football Club [ 1 ] ( Chunma is known in korean culture as the fly horse that the Jade Emperor riding in heaven ) and the cabaret based in Seoul became the sixth extremity of the Korean Super League. [ 6 ] The foundation ceremony was held in Sheraton Walkerhill Hotel in Seoul. [ 5 ] Korea Football Association helped the club to form a team promptly by giving the license to have six precedence picks out of players from Honam regions in the 1989 K League draft. The club has chosen six players, including Ko Jeong-woon and signed Park Jong-hwan as the mind coach. The contract with Park was a lucrative distribute back then, deposit 100 million KRW with 48 million KRW as annual wage. [ 5 ]

early successes [edit ]

The club was successful from its beginning, winning its first League Cup three years after its foundation in 1992 and winning three consecutive league titles from 1993 to 1995. In 1995, K League clubs wanted to stop the club ‘s third back-to-back title and agreed to change the league format back to two stages and the championship playoffs system ; however, Ilhwa Chunma still won the claim. [ 7 ] Seongnam besides won the 1995 asian Club Championship, defeating Al-Nasr 1–0 after extra time in the final examination. [ 8 ]

Cheonan Bound [edit ]

The club was forced to move out from Seoul in 1996, as a depart of the decentralization policy of the league, Ilhwa Chunma moved to the city of Cheonan due to the city council proposition of refurbishing the Cheonan Oryong Stadium into the football-specific stadium and construct another sports building complex in Baekseok-dong. The cabaret besides changed its name to Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma as a part of the policy. [ 9 ] By the end of 1997, Ilhwa was still a successful team. The club reached the final of the 1996–97 asian Club Championship and the 1997 Korean FA Cup. [ 10 ] however, from 1998, Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma went into a slump due to the kernel players moved out for diverse reasons, [ 11 ] including Valeri Sarychev, Chunma ‘s goalkeeper, due to K League ‘s year-by-year gradual restriction on foreign goalkeepers ‘ appearances. [ 12 ] As a result, they had recorded the buttocks of the league for two consecutive seasons, in 1998 and 1999. [ 10 ] In mid-1999, Cha Kyung-bok considered to resign voluntarily due to the poor results. [ 13 ] not only the results on the discipline, but besides the facilities of Cheonan Oryong Stadium were below the standard. On 22 August 1998, Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma had to finish the game against Jeonnam Dragons during the punishment shoot-out, after 1–1 draw in extra fourth dimension. [ 14 ] According to K League regulations back then, teams were required to decide the winner with the golden goal or the penalty shoot-out after the extra meter, if the couple score is horizontal surface at the end of normal time. [ 15 ] Since the field was not equipped with a floodlight system, they had to finish their games before sunset. Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma won the game by a draw. [ 16 ] On 21 November 1999, Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma was crowned as the winners of the 1999 Korean FA Cup by winning the final 3–0 against Jeonbuk Hyundai Dinos at Jeju Stadium. [ 17 ]

Resettled in Seongnam [edit ]

In 2000, the baseball club moved to the Seoul satellite city of Seongnam and renamed themselves to Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma. The move worked out identical well, as the rejuvenate baseball club went on to win three consecutive K League titles from 2001 to 2003, equally well as a league cup title in 2002 and an A3 Champions Cup in 2004 .
McCune–Reischauer romanization. The inaugural crest of Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma in 2000. The name of Seongnam followedromanization. A disappointing 2004 campaign saw them meekly relinquish their deed. however, they reached the concluding of the 2004 AFC Champions League, where despite winning the aside leg 3–1, they lost the home leg 5–0 to Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad and lost the tie 6–3 on aggregate. The defeat led to the resignation of their director, Cha Kyung-bok. With Kim Hak-bum ‘s management, the club bounced back to the vanguard of south korean football in style as they claimed their one-seventh league title in 2006, defeating Suwon Samsung Bluewings 3–1 on aggregate in the championship playoff final. This was their seventh K League entitle which is a record out of all the K League clubs. Before they were defeated by Suwon Bluewings 2–1 on 15 July 2007 in the 2007 season, they went undefeated for 22 consecutive league matches – the third longest streak in the history of the K League. Seongnam reached the concluding of the 2007 K League Championship but were beaten 4–1 on aggregate by the Pohang Steelers, despite finishing in first locate during the regular temper. Seongnam ‘s erstwhile player Shin Tae-yong returned as caretaker coach in the 2009 temper, then as director from the following season and continued the club ‘s success. On 13 November 2010, Seongnam beat iranian club Zob Ahan FC 3–1 in the concluding of the 2010 AFC Champions League. This was their second AFC Champions League title and qualified them directly into the quarter-finals stage of the 2010 FIFA Club World Cup. Seongnam finished the tournament in fourth space. Seongnam added another FA Cup trophy in 2011, beating Suwon Bluewings 1–0 in the final on 15 October 2011. During the 2013 season, there were rumors that the club was going to be sold to Ansan city politics after the death of Sun Myung Moon, the fall through of the Unification Church. Moon was highly devoted to football so the Unification Church had been running the club, but after his end, the Unification Church ‘s circuit board of directors saw no reason to continue running the club and stated their thoughts on selling the cabaret to another organization. After the rumor was reported by the press, Ansan ‘s mayor officially mentioned that the city is in a serve of purchasing the club from Ilhwa. Estimated number of 800 supporters protested in front of the Seongnam city hall stating the city could not lose one of the most successful clubs in the Asian football ‘s history. Seongnam city started negotiation to purchase the clubhouse from Ilhwa. In October 2013, Lee Jae-myung, the mayor of Seongnam, had a conference and announced that Seongnam City Council agreed to take over the club from Ilhwa Sports and will be participating under the mention Seongnam FC. [ 18 ]

Seongnam FC era ( 2014–present ) [edit ]

In December 2013, Seongnam City officially took over the baseball club from Ilhwa Co., Ltd. They changed their symbol to magpie, the symbol of the Seongnam city, from chunma, which was the symbol of the Unification Church. The yellow color of their uniform was besides replaced with black. Their inaugural coach Park Jong-hwan, who had managed the baseball club from 1988 to 1996 returned to the club as coach once again. The club played the first home game as Seongnam FC on March 15, 2014 against FC Seoul resulting in a draw of 0:0. Seongnam FC ‘s beginning victory was on March 26, 2014, beating their bitter rivals Suwon Samsung Bluewings 2–0. On April 22, 2014, coach Park Jong-hwan resigned after it was revealed that he had been assaulting players. [ 19 ]

After months of confusion, the club appointed Kim Hak-bum, who previously led their fortunate age, as their director. The return turned out to be extremely successful, as Seongnam not only escape relegation but besides won their third base FA Cup trophy, beating FC Seoul in a penalty shoot-out on 23 November 2014. In the 2016 temper, after Incheon ‘s succeed over Suwon FC on the final day of the season, Seongnam were placed at 11th and were relegated to the second division for the first prison term in their history after being defeated by northernmost side Gangwon FC on away goals in the promotion-relegation playoffs. [ 20 ] Nam Ki-il was announced as the club ‘s fresh coach on 06/12/2017, replacing Park Kyung-hoon. [ 21 ] He contributed a draw to the promotion of Seongnam Fc to the first division just one season after it was demoted to the second division. [ 22 ] Nam resigned his position as the director of the club on December 16, 2019 [ 23 ] Kim Nam-il was appointed as the club ‘s new director on December 23, 2019 to lead the club in the approaching 2020 K League 1 season. [ 24 ]

Crests and mascots [edit ]

Kits [edit ]

Kit suppliers [edit ]

Honours [edit ]

domestic competitions [edit ]

league [edit ]

Winners (7): 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006
Runners-up (3): 1992, 2007, 2009

Cups [edit ]

Winners (3): 1999, 2011, 2014
Runners-up (3): 1997, 2000, 2009
Winners (3): 1992, 2002, 2004
Runners-up (3): 1995, 2000, 2006
Winners (1): 2002
Runners-up (2): 2000, 2004
Winners (1): 19991

notice 1 : Reserve Team

International competitions [edit ]

asian [edit ]

Winners (1): 1996
Winners (1): 2004

Worldwide [edit ]

Fourth place (1): 2010
Winners (1): 1996

Season-by-season records [edit ]

Season

Division

Tms.

Pos.

FA Cup
AFC CL
1989
1

6

5

—

—

1990

1

6

6

—

—

1991

1

6

5

—

—

1992

1

6

2

—

—

1993

1

6

1

—

—

1994

1

7

1

—

—

1995

1

8

1

—

Semi-final

1996

1

9

8

Quarter-final

Winners
1997

1

10

8

Runners-up

Runners-up

1998

1

10

10

Quarter-final

—

1999

1

10

10

Winners

—

2000

1

10

3

Runners-up

—

2001

1

10

1

Quarter-final

—

2002

1

10

1

Semi-final

—

2003

1

12

1

Round of 16

Group Stage

2004

1

13

9

Round of 32

Runners-up

2005

1

13

3

Round of 16

—

2006

1

14

1

Round of 32

—

2007

1

14

2

Round of 16

Semi-final

2008

1

14

5

Quarter-final

—

2009

1

15

2

Runners-up[25]

—

2010

1

15

4

Quarter-final

Winners

2011

1

16

10

Winners

—

2012

1

16

12

Round of 16

Round of 16

2013

1

14

8

Round of 16

—

2014

1

12

9

Winners

—

2015

1

12

5

Quarter-final

Round of 16

2016

1

12

11

Quarter-final

—

2017

2

10

4

Quarter-final

—

2018

2

10

2

Round of 32

—

2019

1

12

9

Round of 32

—

2020

1

12

10

Semi-final

—

Key
  • Tms. = Number of teams
  • Pos. = Position in league

AFC Champions League record [edit ]

  1. a b c d Played at a achromatic venue .

current team [edit ]

As of 21 July 2021

notice : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on lend [edit ]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

current staff [edit ]

As of 31 December 2019

Coaching staff [edit ]

U-18 Team ( Pungsaeng High School ) coaching staff [edit ]

U-15 Team ( Pungsaeng Middle School ) coaching staff [edit ]

Managers [edit ]

References [edit ]